Anastasia’s Chosen Career (An Anastasia Krupnik story) by Lois Lowry

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Anastasia’s Chosen Career (An Anastasia Krupnik story) by Lois Lowry

I was sent a copy of Anastasia’s Chosen Career (An Anastasia Krupnik story) by Lois Lowry   Anastasia’s Chosen Career (An Anastasia Krupnik story) by Lois Lowry Release Date: 2016-03-01 In her seventh adventure, the irrepressible Anastasia decides that she needs more poise and confidence–especially since her chosen career is to be a bookstore owner. A flyer on her father’s windshield convinces her that charm school at Studio Charmante will teach her just that. But a week in modeling school may be just what Anastasia needs to realize that, just…

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Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: The Story Behind an American Friendship by Russell Freedman

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Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: The Story Behind an American Friendship by Russell Freedman

I was sent a copy of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: The Story Behind an American Friendship by Russell Freedman   Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: The Story Behind an American Friendship by Russell Freedman Release Date: 2016-03-08 From the author of Lincoln: A Photobiography, comes a clear-sighted, carefully researched account of two surprisingly parallel lives and how they intersected at a critical moment in U.S. history. Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass were both self-taught, both great readers and believers in the importance of literacy, both men born poor who…

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#FridayReads- The Demonologist: A Novel by Andrew Pyper

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The Demonologist: A Novel by Andrew Pyper

Happy Friday, guys! Time for another #FridayReads… This weekend, I’ll be reading The Demonologist: A Novel by Andrew Pyper The Demonologist: A Novel by Andrew Pyper Release Date: 2013-03-05 **WINNER OF THE 2014 THRILLER AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL** Fans of The Historian won’t be able to put down this spellbinding literary horror story in which a Columbia professor must use his knowledge of demonic mythology to rescue his daughter from the Underworld.Professor David Ullman is among the world’s leading authorities on demonic literature, with special expertise in Milton’s Paradise Lost.…

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#FridayReads – BIRD BOX by Josh Malerman (January 22, 2016)

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Happy Friday, guys! Time for another #FridayReads… This weekend, I’ll be reading BIRD BOX by Josh Malerman   Bird Box by Josh Malerman Release Date: 2014-05-13 Written with the narrative tension of The Road and the exquisite terror of classic Stephen King, Bird Box is a propulsive, edge-of-your-seat horror thriller, set in an apocalyptic near-future world—a masterpiece of suspense from the brilliantly imaginative Josh Malerman. Something is out there . . . Something terrifying that must not be seen. One glimpse and a person is driven to deadly violence. No one…

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The History Major by Michael Phillip Cash

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The History Major by Michael Phillip Cash

I was sent a copy of The History Major by Michael Phillip Cash   The History Major: A Novella by Michael Phillip Cash Release Date: 2015-12-17 After a vicious fight with her boyfriend followed by a night of heavy partying, college freshman Amanda Greene wakes up in her dorm room to find things are not the same as they were yesterday. She can’t quite put her finger on it. She’s sharing her room with a peculiar stranger. Amanda discovers she’s registered for classes she would never choose with people that…

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Marked by Laura Williams McCaffrey

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Marked by Laura Williams McCaffrey

I was sent a copy of Marked by Laura Williams McCaffrey   Marked by Laura Williams McCaffrey Release Date: 2016-02-16 Sixteen-year-old Lyla lives in a bleak, controlling society where only the brightest and most favored students succeed. When she is caught buying cheats in an underground shadow market, she is tattooed—marked—as a criminal. Then she is offered redemption and she jumps at the chance . . . but it comes at a cost. Doing what is right means betraying the boy she has come to love, and, perhaps, losing even…

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Builder Mouse by Sofia Eldarova

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Builder Mouse by Sofia Eldarova

I was sent a copy of Builder Mouse by Sofia Eldarova   Builder Mouse by Sofia Eldarova Release Date: 2016-02-02 Two mouse friends have two distinctly different uses for leftovers.   Edgar loves to build with them.   Toby loves to eat them.   This makes life challenging.   So Edgar sets out to find someone who will appreciate his creations as art, and not as lunch. This sly, appealingly understated, and warm-hearted book is the American debut of the author/illustrator Sofia Eldarova. |   Have you read this one yet? Comment down below…

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The Story of Seeds: From Mendel’s Garden to Your Plate, and How There’s More of Less to Eat Around the World by Nancy Castaldo

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The Story of Seeds

I was sent a copy of The Story of Seeds: From Mendel’s Garden to Your Plate, and How There’s More of Less to Eat Around the World by Nancy Castaldo   The Story of Seeds: From Mendel’s Garden to Your Plate, and How There’s More of Less to Eat Around the World by Nancy Castaldo Release Date: 2016-02-23 Something as small as a seed can have a worldwide impact. Did you know there are top-secret seed vaults hidden throughout the world? And once a seed disappears, that’s it—it’s gone forever?…

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Rodzina by Karen Cushman

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Rodzina by Karen Cushman

I was sent a copy of Rodzina by Karen Cushman   Rodzina by Karen Cushman Release Date: 2016-02-09 Rodzina Clara Jadwiga Anastazya Brodski is the new face in Karen Cushman’s gallery of unforgettable heroines. One of a group of orphans, 12-year-old Rodzina boards a train on a cold day in March 1881. She’s reluctant to leave Chicago, the only home she can remember, and she knows there’s no substitute for the family she has lost. She expects to be adopted and turned into a slave—or worse, not to be adopted…

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Raging Sea: Undertow Trilogy Book 2 by Michael Buckley

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Raging Sea: Undertow Trilogy Book 2 by Michael Buckley

I was sent a copy of Raging Sea: Undertow Trilogy Book 2 by Michael Buckley   Raging Sea: Undertow Trilogy Book 2 by Michael Buckley Release Date: 2016-02-02 In the first book of Michael Buckley’s Undertow trilogy, the Alpha arrived and the world was never the same. At the start of the second book, most of south Brooklyn is in ruins and the nation is terrified. Nearly everyone that Lyric Walker loves is either missing or presumed dead, including the mesmerizing prince Fathom. It’s up to Lyric to unite the…

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